This is a brief summary of bugs fixed between Ubuntu 8.04.1 and 8.04.2. This summary covers only changes to packages in "main" and "restricted", which account for all packages in the officially-supported CD images; there are further changes to various packages in "universe" and "multiverse". Some of these fixes were by Ubuntu developers directly, while others were by upstream developers and backported to Ubuntu. For full details, see the individual package changelogs.

In addition to the bugs listed below, this update includes all security updates from the Ubuntu Security Notice list affecting Ubuntu 8.04 LTS that were released up to and including January 15, 2009. The last updates included were USN-707-1 (CUPS vulnerabilities) and USN-700-2 (Perl regression).

Top bugs

These changes address very high-profile issues, usually with many reports.

correct group ownership of files changed by ubiquity 1.7.5 through 1.10.9; set EGID back to 0 when regaining privileges so that reconfigured packages write files with correct group privileges when launched from full desktop session

Upgrade bugs

These changes fix a variety of upgrade issues, some of which relate to upgrades from previous releases of Ubuntu to this release, and some of which smooth the way for future upgrades to later releases of Ubuntu.